ARAKAN ROHINGYA NATIONAL ORGANISATION
ARAKAN, BURMA
Press Release
(19th June 2010)
Today is the 65th birthday of Burma democracy icon, noble peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. She is spending her birthday in detention away from her relatives and friends. She has spent almost 15 years in detention since 1989.
Time and again the United Nations, with the international community, and the world leaders expressed that her arrest is illegal and is a clear violation of international law. But no real action has yet been taken to secure her release as well as the release of all political prisoners. Like an ostrich the military regime is unheard of the Burmese people’s clamours and international outcries, and is busy with its own undemocratic roadmap trying to legitimize its military dictatorship, with worst record of human rights violations and crimes against humanity, in the country.
Evidently, the next SPDC’s sham election based on its 2008 constitution will not bring any democratic changes in Burma. It will simply accelerate the existing human sufferings causing greater humanitarian disaster in the country.
We, therefore, urge upon the UN and international community to take immediate, appropriate and concrete action for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners; and for a negotiated settlement of the political crisis, through tripartite dialogue, in order to establish federal democracy in Burma.
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